User list

MARCELO
VIANNA
Computers
PhD Student
PUCRS - Program of Post-Graduation in History

Technopolitics, formation of IT field, social history of computers.

Rob
Duarte
Technology & Culture
Assistant Professor
Florida State University

Social, political and organizational aspects of technology throughout history.

Alan
Weissberger
Data Communications
Program Chair
IEEE ComSoc SCV
Michael
Kramer
Vernacular Culture and Music, Cultural and Intellectual History, Citizenship, Public Sphere, Mass Media, Technology, Consumerism, 1960s
Lecturer
Northwestern University

I am a historian of modern US cultural and intellectual history, with interests in vernacular culture and music, citizenship and the public sphere, intellectual and cultural history, mass media and technology. Book -- The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (OUP, 2013); blogs, issuesindigitalhistory.net, culturerover.com.

Michael
Newman
media studies
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

cinema television video games media technology history popular culture

Mark
Summerfield
C20th personal computing (US and UK)
Independent

The history of personal computers, in particular, operating systems (from ROM-based to disk-based), development tools (languages, editors, etc.), and personal productivity software; personal computers, portable and hand-held computers; documentation, manuals, magazines, and newsletters; people and companies.

Jim
Anderson
Collecting things such as stamps, badges, postcards, pens etc.
System Analyst

Collecting things such as stamps, badges, postcards, pens etc.

Amelia
Acker
Mobile computing
PhD Student
University of California, Los Angeles

Mobile computing, electronic records, digital archives

Petri
Paju
International history of computing, IBM World Trade Corp.
Post-doc researcher
Department of Cultural History, University of Turku (Finland)

Petri Paju wrote his dissertation (Cultural History, University of Turku, 2008) on information technology and nationalism. Dissertation title: Building ”Ilmarinen’s Finland”: the Committee for Mathematical Machines and computer construction as a national project in the 1950s. University of Turku publications C 269. -It's in Finnish with an English Summary in the end.

Petri's current research deals with IBM's various roles in Europe during the Cold War. He is a member of the Software for Europe project group in European Science Foundation’s research programme Inventing Europe, Technology and the Making of Europe, from 1850 to the Present (2007–2010).

Recent publications:
Paju, Petri: “IBM Manufacturing in the Nordic Countries.” In John Impagliazzo, Per Lundin, Benkt Wangler (Eds.): History of Nordic Computing 3. IFIP AICT 350. Springer, Heidelberg 2011, 215–227.
Paju, Petri & Durnová, Helena: “Computing Close to the Iron Curtain: Inter/national Computing Practices in Czechoslovakia and Finland.” Comparative Technology Transfer and Society. December 2009, vol. 7, no. 3 issue. /
Impagliazzo, John & Järvi, Timo & Paju, Petri (Eds.), History of Nordic Computing 2. Springer, Berlin 2009. /
Paju, Petri: ”National Projects and International Users: Finland and Early European computerization”. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Vol. 30, 4/2008, 77–91. -- Articles are available on my website.

Pierre E.
Mounier-Kuhn
History of Computing in France and in Europe
CNRS
Chargé de recherche, CNRS & Paris-Sorbonne University. Chercheur associé with the Centre Alexandre Koyré

Pierre-E. Mounier-Kuhn has published two books:
• In 2010 on the emergence of computing in French research and higher education:
L'Informatique en France, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au Plan Calcul. L'Emergence d'une Science
(Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2010, 720 p.)
http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=838
• In 2013 on information technologies in a major French bank:
Mémoires Vives. 50 Ans d'Informatique chez BNP Paribas (BNP Paribas, 2013, 196 p.)

His main fields of interest are:
• The historical geography of computer science and the process of academic discipline building
• IT in banks
• Computer & peripheral manufacturers in France, particularly IBM, Bull, SEA, and new entrants
• Software & service companies, particularly the service bureau sector
• The development of early Air & Navy defense systems, and their influence on the French computer industry
• Governmental policies regarding computer technology and industry.
• Transnational relationships in the scientific and industrial spheres, particularly between the USA and France, within Europe and with the former communist countries.

He collects contemporary art in the form of vintage computer cards and components.

P. Mounier-Kuhn has co-organized a number of international conferences, exhibitions and publications in these fields, and published some 50 papers in French and in English. He participated in "Software for Europe", a collaborative research project within the European Science Foundation. He served in the jury of the Computer History Museum Book Prize (2010-2012).

Kevin
Gotkin
PhD Student
University of Pennsylvania
Marie
Hicks
Computing, Gender, Sexuality, Europe, Britain and British Empire, Government
Assistant Professor, History of Technology
Humanities Department, Illinois Institute of Technology

I am currently serving as Vice Chair, Operations for the SIGCIS.

My research focuses on the history of computing and gender, particularly in Britain and its former imperial territories. My goal is to study how connections between national prestige, labor, and productivity define collective understandings of technological progress, and how that relates to social progress. I study how labor pools are expanded or constricted by feminization and deskilling, masculinization and professionalization, and the class implications of white and pink collar machine work. I am particularly interested in the global history of computing's ability to enhance and emend U.S.-centric narratives of technological progress.

My recent publications and news are available on my website: www.mariehicks.net

I also occasionally contribute blog posts to the main page here at sigcis.org and helped organize the 2011 SIGCIS workshop--please drop me an email if you'd like to learn more about presenting at a future workshop!

Brent
Jesiek
History and social studies of computing and engineering
Assistant Professor, Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University

Dr. Jesiek's research interests are focused on the epistemological, social, and historical dimensions of engineering and computing, with particular emphasis on subjects related to engineering education, computer engineering, and educational technology. He is also active in the areas of global engineering education and open-source software and hardware.

julie
blusse
reyes
partin
I'm a graduate student at the Software Engineering Lab of Prof. Zeller at Mit, united states
none
university

 La machine à café Senseo brasseur seule tasse de café est idéal pour ceux qui veulent une bonne tasse de café aromatique et fraîchement infusé à tout moment. La machine à café Senseo est si facile à utiliser, avec seulement 3 boutons à pousser.
 Si vous êtes une personne qui n'ont pas le temps d'attendre ni la patience de brasser un pot entier en utilisant la cafetière filtre classique ou veut tout simplement d'avoir seulement une tasse, puis le brasseur seule tasse de café est parfait pour vous.

 Le prix de cet appareil de cuisine varie considérablement en fonction de votre choix et exigences. En raison de la concurrence accrue entre les fabricants et aussi en raison du fait que ces machines sont couramment achetés par de nombreuses familles à travers le monde, les prix ont chuté de façon significative, ce qui en fait une option économique pour aider à profiter de votre boisson expresso favori tout en vous relaxant dans votre maison .

 Une fonction supplémentaire impressionnante de la machine à café Nespresso, c'est que vous n'avez plus à deviner la mesure de votre quantité de café à infuser, il est donc facile d'avoir la tasse d'espresso idéal. La réalité est, cela est rendu possible grâce à l'utilisation des pré-remplies de propriété capsules de bouchage en aluminium. Pour ceux qui préfèrent l'utilisation de grains de café, les gousses peuvent être commandés directement auprès de Nespresso à moins que ceux dans les magasins de vente au détail les plus. Même ceux qui désirent préparer une seule tasse n'aurez pas de problèmes dans l'exécution ainsi.

machine expresso nespresso

http://www.wwaytv3.com/user/10297

cafetiere delonghi

Armand
Van Dormael
History of computing

Armand Van Dormael has published two books about the history of money: “Bretton Woods: Birth of a Monetary System” and “The Power of Money”. Several years ago, he decided to buy a new computer and discovered that the European manufacturers had given up production. His investigation into the history of computing led to the discovery that in 1948, two German scientists had developed functional transistors for account of the French government. He also came to know the French engineer who, in 1972, built the first microcomputer, the Micral. He is completing the manuscript of "The Silicon Revolution".

Sreejith
Alathur
Bill
Mauchly
Eckert-Mauchly Computers
System Architect
Cisco Systems

1940's computers, Digital Signal Processing, playing guitar, 30's and 40's swing and jazz

David
Walden
first person histories
Retired
was with Bolt Beranek and Newman for 27 years; also spent a year with Norsk Data Electronikk and three years with MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

I have no specific research interest.
I am happy to recount what I know to people researching the early days of the Internet.
I currently am Anecdotes Editor for the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and encourage submissions to the Anecdotes Department. I am also 2011 chair of the IEEE Computer Society History Committee.